Kelly Craft

Kelly Dawn Knight Craft (24 February 1962-) was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from August 2019, succeeding Jonathan Cohen.

Biography
Kelly Dawn Guilfoil was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1962, the daughter of a county-level Democratic leader. She was appointed as an alternate delegate to the United Nations by President George W. Bush in 2007 (focusing on US engagement in Africa), and she married coal tycoon Joe Craft in 2016. That same year, she served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention, where she supported Donald Trump. In 2017, Craft was appointed Ambassador to Canada by Trump. She was frequently absent from her Ottawa office and took an average of one round trip from Canada to the US weekly over the course of 15 months. On 22 February 2019, Trump nominated her to serve as Ambassador to the United Nations, and she was confirmed on 31 July 2019.